CCSI Cork Crowncap Database - Brewer/Bottler
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 Brewer/bottler #3326 | | | Name | Sunkist Growers Inc. |
| | Address | Use for all Sunkist, Cal-Ade, Growers and New Day crowns when the bottler is unknown. Pre 1971- Claremont. Post 1971-Sherman Oaks. |
| | | State/Province | California |
| | | | | | Extra info | Sunkist name was awarded through litigation to the California Fruit Growers Exchange in the late 30s.
In the late 1880s, California citrus growers began organizing themselves into cooperatives, with the goal of increasing profits by pooling their risk and increasing their collective bargaining power with jobbers and packers. The economic depression that began in 1893 worsened farmers' situations, and intensified their desire to self-organize to their own benefit.
In 1893, P.J. Dreher and his son, the "father of the California citrus industry" Edward L. Dreher (1877–1964), formed the Southern California Fruit Exchange in Claremont, a small college town near Los Angeles. It originally represented only growers of oranges: in 1896 lemon growers joined as well. The exchange soon included growers and groves in Pomona, Riverside and San Dimas in Los Angeles County, and Santa Paula, Saticoy, Fillmore, Rancho Sespe, Bardsdale and Piru in Ventura County; by 1905, the group represented 5,000 members, 45% of the California citrus industry, and renamed itself the California Fruit Growers Exchange. In 1931, the company acquired the stock of the Exchange Orange Products Company which produced Cal-Ade. Records from 1922 show that the Exchange Orange Products Company of San Dimas was operated by members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, In 1952, California Fruit Growers Exchange changed its name to Sunkist Growers, Inc.
From 1971 to 2014, Sunkist was based in the Sherman Oaks district of Los Angeles; in September 2014, it relocated to the Valencia neighborhood of Santa Clarita, California |
| | | | | | | Other names used for this Brewer/bottler | | Name 1 | California Fruit Growers Exchange |
| | | Name 2 | Exchange Orange Products Company |
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